LinuxPlanet: Review: XAMPP–An Apache Server Stack

“The cornerstone of most open source application serving is the
ubiquitous LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP/Python/Perl) stack. Yet
it’s not always as easy as you’d expect to get all the elements of
the stack properly installed and working together. Enter XAMPP,
which is an effort to provide a working stack that will provide all
of the stack components (except for the OS) in one simple install.
No messy ./configure commands required.

“The difficulty in getting Apache, PHP, Perl, Python and MySQL
all properly compiled and working together is no laughing
matter…”

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